Antonio Garca Gutirrez

Antonio Garca Gutirrez

Antonio Garca Gutirrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist. After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833, and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugne Scribe and the Alexandre Dumas, pre; lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El trovador, which was played for the first time on 1 March 1836. Garca Gutirrez never surpassed this first effort, which placed him among the leaders of the Romantic movement in Spain, and which became known all over Europe through Giuseppe Verdi's music. His next great success was Simn Bocanegra (1843; again made into an opera by Verdi, as Simon Boccanegra). However, since his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to Spanish America, working as a journalist in Cuba and Mexico until 1850, when he returned to Spain. The best works of his later period are a zarzuela titled El grumete (1853), La venganza catalana (1864) and Juan Lorenzo (1865). He became head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, the city where he died. His Poesas (1840) and another volume of lyrics, entitled Luz y tinieblas (1842), are comparatively minor; but the versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th century.

Antonio Garca Gutirrez's Books:

[Heath Modern Language Series El Trovador]

Ida Lee

Ida Lee

Ida Louisa Lee, (1865 - 1943), historian and poet, was born at Kelso, New South Wales. She was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (F.R.G.S. ) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society (Hon. F.R.A.H.S.). Lee wrote a number of historical texts, some of which contain previously unpublished material. On a visit to England, Lee married Charles John Bruce Marriott (1861-1936) on 14 October 1891 at the parish church, Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Ida Lee's Books:

[The Logbooks Of The Lady Nelson]

Tags: seabury quinn  william denton  edward bok  barbara hofland  alvar nez cabeza de vaca  charles stoddard  edward robins  j buckrose  edouard corbire  

William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps (2 January 1865 - 21 August 1943) was an American author, critic and scholar. Phelps gained a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he went on to teach for just one year before returning to Yale to hold a position in the English department for 41 years, retiring in 1933. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

William Lyon Phelps's Books:

[Essays On Russian Novelists | Robert Browning How To Know Him | The Advance Of English Poetry In The Twentieth Century]

Tags: elliott odonnell  andrew preston peabody  david masson  oscar wilde  anna de noailles  carter godwin woodson  evelyn scott  caroline wigley clive  

David Mccullough

David Mccullough (1933-now)

David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Born and reared in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968); and he has since written seven more on such topics as Harry S Truman, John Adams, and the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough has also narrated multiple documentaries, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit; and he hosted American Experience for twelve years. Two of McCullough's books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted by HBO into a TV film and a mini-series, respectively. McCullough's next work, about Americans in Paris from the 1830s to the 1930s, is due out in 2010.

J Mccullough's Books:

[Golf In The Year Or What We Are Coming To]

Tags: alexander hislop  willem bilderdijk  hermann hesse  david garnett  carl sandburg  dora sigerson  frank preston stearns  a de oliveira cardoso fonseca  esther bakewell  jl kennon  

Xenophon Edited By Henry Morley Translated By Edward Bysshe

Xenophon Edited By Henry Morley Translated By Edward Bysshe

Xenophon (Ancient Greek , Xenophn; Modern Greek , Ksenofon; , Ksenofontas; c. 430 - 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.

Henry Morley's Books:

[A Bundle Of Ballads | Playful Poems]

Tags: anna louisa geertruida bosboom toussaint  edward naylor  ferdinand raimund  gustav meyrink  winston churchill  marquis de sade  fyodor dostoyevsky  elizabeth gray and mabel thayer gray potter  abbie farwell brown  grace miller white  

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798)

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 June 4, 1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He was so famous as a womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life.

Giacomo Casanova's Books:

[A Cleric In Naples | Back Again To Paris | Convent Affairs | Depart Switzerland | Expelled From Spain | Florence To Trieste | Holland And Germany | London To Berlin | Milan And Mantua | Milan | Military Career | Old Age And Death | Paris And Holland | Paris | Return To Holland | Return To Italy | Return To Naples | Return To Paris | Return To Venice | Russia And Poland | The English | The False Nun]

Tags: w hudson  william lighton  eugene brieux  edmund leamy  alexander whyte d  claude fournier  ellen craft  a benson  eva stern  

Achmed Abdullah

Achmed Abdullah

Achmed Abdullah (12 May 1881 12 May 1945), a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, an Academy Award nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

Achmed Abdullah's Books:

[Alien Souls | Fear | The Charmed Life | The Incubus | Himself To Himself Enough | Pro Patria | The Mystery Of The Talking Idols]